在墨西哥殖民时期遗留下来的文件中，有罕见的由玛雅人撰写的基督教经文手稿汇编，翻译并改编成玛雅语言和世界观，用于向当地居民传播福音。莫雷手稿为学者所熟知，现在蒂博手稿引入了另一个例子，马克·Z·克里斯滕森称之为玛雅-基督教抄本。最近在杨百翰大学（Brigham Young University）的档案中发现的提波手稿代表了一个尤卡坦玛雅人（Yucatecan Maya），讲述了基督教教义的各个方面，包括世界的创造、亚当和夏娃的堕落，以及基督的谱系。
蒂博手稿介绍了这一晚期殖民地玛雅语言文件的首次英文翻译和分析，该书还包括该文件的传真和抄本。通过一节一节地阅读手稿，克里斯滕森有力地证明了它的本土作者身份，以及它与其他欧洲和玛雅宗教文本的联系，包括莫雷手稿和奇拉姆·巴拉姆的书。他以《蒂博手稿》为平台，探索各种主题，如玛雅人的福音化、他们的文学作品，以及他们认为足够重要的基督教方面，以供书写和保存。这项开创性的研究为玛雅人如何在西班牙和天主教殖民地世界中谈判他们的先入为主的知识传统提供了重要的新见解。
The Teabo Manuscript: Maya Christian Copybooks, Chilam Balams, and Native Text Production in Yucatán
Among the surviving documents from the colonial period in Mexico are rare Maya-authored manuscript compilations of Christian texts, translated and adapted into the Maya language and worldview, which were used to evangelize the local population. The Morely Manuscript is well known to scholars, and now The Teabo Manuscript introduces an additional example of what Mark Z. Christensen terms a Maya Christian copybook. Recently discovered in the archives of Brigham Young University, the Teabo Manuscript represents a Yucatecan Maya recounting of various aspects of Christian doctrine, including the creation of the world, the Fall of Adam and Eve, and the genealogy of Christ.
The Teabo Manuscript presents the first English translation and analysis of this late colonial Maya-language document, a facsimile and transcription of which are also included in the book. Working through the manuscript section by section, Christensen makes a strong case for its native authorship, as well as its connections with other European and Maya religious texts, including the Morely Manuscript and the Books of Chilam Balam. He uses the Teabo Manuscript as a platform to explore various topics, such as the evangelization of the Maya, their literary compositions, and the aspects of Christianity that they deemed important enough to write about and preserve. This pioneering research offers important new insights into how the Maya negotiated their precontact intellectual traditions within a Spanish and Catholic colonial world.
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